ABOUT THE COACH
Sue Enquist has been a player, coach, and head coach with the UCLA Bruins for 28 years. A former All-American center fielder who led UCLA to its first softball national championship in 1978, Enquist guided UCLA to its record 10th championship in 2004.
Enquist has been the head coach at UCLA since 1997, and served as co-head coach from 1989-96 with her mentor Sharron Backus, whom she was as an assistant under from 1980-88. The Bruins have an amazing record of 623-94 in Enquist's 13 seasons as head coach or co-head coach, and she has compiled over 1,150 wins in her Bruin softball career as a player and coach.
Enquist hit .401 in her collegiate playing career from 1975-78, a record which stood at UCLA for 24 years. Enquist became the first softball player to be inducted into the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame and her No. 6 jersey was retired in 2000, becoming just the third number in Bruin softball history to be retired, joining Lisa Fernandez and Dot Richardson.
Enquist earned her degree in kinesiology from UCLA in 1980.
Gina Vecchione is in her fifth season as an assistant coach at UCLA, where she works with the school's outfielders and hitters.
Vecchione was an All-Region outfielder at UCLA from 1980-82 and played 12 seasons with the Amateur Softball Association's Raysbestos Brakettes of Stratford, CT, winning eight ASA titles and three World titles. Vecchione was named to the ASA All-America team seven times and earned softball's top honor in 1997, when she became the first former UCLA player inducted into the ASA's Hall of Fame.
Vecchione returned to her alma mater in 2000 after five seasons as the top assistant at Oregon State. She also spent three seasons as an assistant coach for the ASA's California Commotion, winning three consecutive women's major fastpitch national titles.
Vecchione earned her degree in sociology from UCLA in 1984.
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